Boiler-compound holder.



R E. BURNING.

BOILER COMPOUND HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 3, 1915.

l a Patented Jan. 18,- 1916.

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ROBERT E. BURNING, OF AVALON, PENNSYLVANIA. ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO XVILLIAM H. MORSE, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOILER-COMPOUND HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

?atented Jan. 18, 1916.

Application filed September 3, 1915. Serial No. 48,926.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that I, Bonner E. DURNING, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Avalon, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boiler-Compound Holders, of which he following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an improved boiler compound holder, which is applicable for use in steam plants, hot Water heaters, and also for domestic purposes, for the softening of water before being used.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simplified device which is easily manipulated and adjustable for different sized boilers or for softening different quantities of Water, which is durable, comparatively inexpensive in cost of production and maintenance, and efficient in furnishing to the water to be treated a uniform and regiilated supply of material as required. I

\Vith these ends in view the invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter more fully pointed out and set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings 1 have illustrated the construction of the invention according to the best modes I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention. In addition to the forms illustrated herein, it will be evident that by omitting some parts and duplicating others, different arrangements may be made to suit different conditions, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Figure 1 is a vertical central longitudinal sectional view of the device complete and according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on line of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is an end view (right end) of Fig. 1. Fig. i is a detail plan view showing the bolt and slot arrangement for adjusting a casing or a sleeve with relation to the barrel of the device. Fig. 5 is a sec tional view on line 5 5 Fig. 4-. Fig. 6 is a view of a modified form of the invention especially applicable for use in hot water systems.

The device illustrated in the first live fig ures of the drawings, is for use specially with boiler plants, and comprises as its base a cylindrical, metallic tubular barrel l of generally uniform internal diameter, CX-

cept for a bulge 2 which forms an outwardly pro ecting ring, and the barrel is open at both ends and internally screw threaded as at 3, 4, with'similar threads. lhe upper half of the barrel is perforated as at 5 5, etc., and these openings or perforations are regularly spaced or uniformly arranged in circumferential lines over the upper area of the barrel.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the left end of the barrel is closed by a perforated head 6 formed With an externally threaded sleeve 7, and this open end sleeve is screwed into the threaded end 3 of the barrel. The perforations S in the head extend over the entire area of the head, and in some instances, these perforations provide the sole exit for the boiler compound from the interior of the barrel.

The right end of the barrel is closed by a screw plug 9 threaded into the threaded end l of the barrel, and it will be apparent that this plug might be omitted and a duplicate of the head (5 used here instead of the plug, thus closing both ends of the barrel with a perforated head. llowever, I have illustrated a casing 10 titted over the end of the barrel and attached as by a bolt 11 and nut 12 to the plug 9, the bolt extending through the center of the plug and the nut impinging against the casing head This casing is formed near its open ad with a bulging ring 1% which is adap to spring over the similar ring 2 of the 1; el and be retained thereby. The casing erforated at 15 and these perforations are adapted to aline with the perforations 5 in the barrel, and the casing is capable of being revolved about the barrel, on the bolt ll so that the openings 5 and 15 will register more or less with each other and so adjust the opening for the exit of the boiler compound from the interior of the barrel. A transverse slot 16 is provided in the casing to accommodate the bolt 17 fixed in the barrel and protruding through the casing slot, and a nut 1.8 is employed to lock the casing in adjusted position on the barrel. When so locked, a seal 19 may be attached by the cord or wire 20 to the screw eyes 21 22 on the barrel and casing respectively, to prevent tampering or surreptitious changing of the adjusted parts.

in addition to the circumferential adjustment of the casing, it may also be adbrought into use and through the casing head 13 and pnbrackets 33, 34

justed longitudinally with relation to *the barrel by utilizing the set screw 23 threaded adapted to bear on the screw plug 9 in the end of the barrel; By this device the longitudinal alinement of the casing and barrel may be adjusted with precision and facility.

A third adjustable device for the exit of the boiler compound is provided in the nature of an openend sleeve 24, perforated at 25 to aline with the perforations 5 in thmbarrel, and located at the left'end of"- the barrel. This sleeve incases the barrel, and is adjustable with relation thereto by using the bolt 26 fixed in the barrel and protruding through the slot 27 in the sleeve 24, the nut 28 barrel and sleeve.

The device as described may be fixed within the boiler by means of the two stands which fit loosely over the sleeveand casing, but may be brought into close frictionalrelationship and (made rigid therewith by tightening the set' bolts which are threaded sleeve and easing.

convenient to rigidly attach the device to the interior of the boiler, by using the stands treated.

In. Fig. 6 another form of the barrel, as

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37 is shown in connection 'with a perforated head 38'and this form of holder is especially adapted to use with the water pipe of a hot water plant, wherein the hook 39 may be utilized to suspend the device in the water pipe, at a conveniently enlarged place or portion in the pipe.

ave a specially prepared boiler compound which I use in the the entrance and circulation of Water in the interior of holder, .so that the solution passing through the perforations will permeate t e water in desired use. Different sized devices may be used in connection with boilers of different capacities, and it will be readily seen seal to the screw eyes 31 and 32 in the' The combination with a perforatedbarrel" I having a removable screw plug closing one end, of a perforatedcasing, a longitudinal bolt in the plug, head revoluble on the bolt and provided with a circumfdrential slot, and a bolt fixed in the barrel protruding through said slot j usted position;

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